[clug] time's memory options don't work

Chris Smart mail at christophersmart.com
Wed Jun 17 01:43:29 GMT 2009


Hey all,

I'm trying to work out how much memory a process is using from start
to finish. Do to that I'm using GNU time (not bash) /usr/bin/time
which can apparently tell me with %K:
"Average total memory use of the process in Kbytes."

I.e.
/usr/bin/time -f %K [command]

Problem is that it just doesn't work. I always get a value of zero. In
fact all memory related options always present zero as the result.

Does anyone know why or how to fix it?

Thanks!
Chris


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